titles

A composite of 1950s American, Italian and French movie end title screenshots from one of our favorite websites, The Movie Title Stills Collection, created by the most excellent designer Christian Annyas. Here are the film titles, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom:

FINE: Il Cammino Della Speranza (1950)

THE END: Human Desire (1954)

FINE: Non c’è pace tra gli ulivi (1950)

The End: Big Heat (1953)

FINE: Grido (1957)

THE END: Desk Set (1957)

FINE: Un Maledetto Imbroglio (1959)

The End: It Happened To Jane (1959)

FINE: Un Americano a Roma (1954)

The End: Teacher’s Pet (1958)

FIN: Bob le Flambeur (1955)

The End: His Kind of Woman (1951)

FINE: Guardie e Ladri (1951)

THE END: From Here To Eternity (1953)

FINE: La Grand Guerra (1959)

the end: 12 Angry Men (1957)

Fine: Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)

THE END: Not As A Stranger (1955)

To END this silly dialectic with one last FINE, I originally posted here a quick video of the end title sequence of Un Americano a Roma (1954), which I found after I had already begun contrasting the title languages; alas, the video has been pulled. But here is an still image, with the character in the hospital bed “erasing” the “FINE” end title that you can see in the middle-right of the montage above: